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Retail trade. Employed persons. By branches

Retail trade and repairs. Employed persons. By sectors. CCAE-93 2003
By sex By labour situation
Men Women Salaried Others Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Non specialised establishments 21,777 42,640 60,142 4,275 64,417 431,724 14.9
Food, beverages and tobacco 17,150 36,686 31,905 21,931 53,836 256,324 21.0
Pharmaceutical and beauty products 4,175 13,577 13,024 4,728 17,752 107,662 16.5
Other trading of new articles 52,469 83,219 92,992 42,696 135,688 739,678 18.3
Second hand goods, in establishments 611 193 326 478 804 3,050 26.4
Trade outside of establishments 9,840 4,902 6,560 8,182 14,742 76,855 19.2
Reparació d'efectes personals i domèstics 4,511 1,504 3,131 2,884 6,015 32,146 18.7
Total 110,533 182,721 208,080 85,174 293,254 1,647,439 17.8
Source: Idescat, based on the INE's Annual survey of services.
Notes:
On September 30.
A partir del 2008 les dades sectorials corresponen a la nova Classificació catalana d'activitats econòmiques CCAE-2009. Això comporta que no puguin ser comparables amb les dels anys anteriors.

Last update: May 31, 2011.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hours worked by employees
Total number of hours actually worked by employees for production during the reference period. It includes the total number of usual hours and overtime.
Employees
Workers linked to the company by means of a work contract who receive remuneration in the form of wages, salaries, commissions, bonuses, fixed prices or in kind. It includes both permanent and temporary personnel, either full-time or part-time.

Methodological aspects

The main source of trade statistics is the Structural business statistics in the trade sector, called the Annual Trade Survey prior to the reference year 2014, conducted by the INE in accordance with European Union regulations, whereby the statistics for Catalonia are exploited by Idescat. General information is obtained on the evolution of commerce and three main groups or sections that it is made up of:

  • sale and repair of motor vehicles and motocycles
  • wholesale
  • retail

This breakdown presents the tables showing the main results for macromagnitudes and employed persons. In turn, these large groups are subdivided into branches that cover all specialities of commerce. For this smaller breakdown, tables showing macromagnitudes and employed persons are also presented.

Since 2008, the Annual commerce survey has been adapted to the new National classification of economic activities (CNAE-2009). This change involves a shift in the series that prevents inter-annual comparison between most sectors and some variables.

The correspondences between the sectors used and the Catalan classification of economic activities (CCAE-2009) is as follows:

CCAE-2009Groups of activities
  
45Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
46Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
47Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
49-53Transportation and storage
55,56Accommodation
58-63Information and communication
68Real estate activities
69-75Professional, scientific and technical activities
77-82Administrative and support service activities
90-93Arts, entertainment and recreation
95,96Other services

Several methodological improvements were applied to the Structural Business Statistics in 2016. The results for 2016 are therefore not strictly comparable with those for previous years.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.